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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli government will spend about $ 1 million to host Argentina and Lionel Messi in Jerusalem for a friendly against Israel, Israeli television reported on Wednesday .

“The match will be held on June 9 and will take place at the Teddy International Stadium in Jerusalem, instead of the Sami Ofer International Stadium in Haifa, to celebrate the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” the report said.

“The transfer of the game from Jerusalem to Haifa led to increased costs for Israel to arrange the meeting, which led to criticism,” the report said.

“The Israeli government will spend about $ 4 million for the arrival of the Argentinian team in Jerusalem, which is divided into $ 1 million to arrange the meeting in Jerusalem and about $ 3 million to Argentina for their arrival in Israel for the friendly match.”

The Committee of Competitions in the Football Federation decided to postpone the game of Al-Hussein and the port, which was scheduled to be held on Wednesday to Friday due to the conditions passing through the club and the request to postpone the game to another notice.

“The committee obtained the approval of Al-Hussein Club to postpone the new date for its establishment on Friday and at the Taji Stadium at 4:30 am,” said Shehab Ahmed, director of the committee, in a statement received by Alsumaria News.

He added that “the matches of the ninth round will be affected by some changes because of the postponement of the match between Al-Hussein and the port as the match between the police teams and the port will be held on Tuesday, corresponding to the twenty-ninth of the same month instead of the previous date, as well as the establishment of the game of Al – Zawra and Al Hussein on Wednesday for the 30th of this month instead of the previous date “He said.

The Iraqi basketball team looks forward to participating actively and strongly in the Bahrain International Championship, which will take part in their first match on 24 May.

The first of the two matches will be held with the Bahraini national team, where the competition will be strong to win the points and win the opening of the tournament, especially that the fans of Bahrain will be strongly present in the first games.

In the second game will face the Lebanese team on Friday at 11 pm, while the final match will be with the Egyptian team on Sunday at 9 pm.

This tournament comes as part of preparations for Iraq’s basket of World Cup qualifying, where he will face Kazakhstan on the twenty-ninth of June.

The draw for the AFC Asian Cup 2018 Asian Championships will be held at the Armani Hotel at Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, with the participation of 24 teams representing the continent, which will be represented by national team coach Basem Kassem and managing director Basil Kurkis.

The AFC has announced the classification of the teams participating in the tournament, which will be added by the UAE for the period from January 5 to February 1 next year, where the teams divided into four levels and as follows:

As is known, each team will be selected from the four levels during the draw. The teams will be divided into six groups with four teams. The first and second places in each group will qualify, with the top four teams finishing third to the last 16.

arcelona approached a new step towards the restoration of the Spanish league title, which missed him last season, after he continued to direct its annexes Atletico Madrid bleeding points for the second straight game, they drew goalless at home to Real Betis on Sunday, in stage 34 of the tournament.

Atletico were 72 points in second place, 11 points behind leaders Catalunya, who need one point in their remaining five games to qualify for the season.

In contrast, Betis lifted his score to 56 points in fifth place qualifying for the European Championship next season.